The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1887-04-09


ciate the feelings of an agent whom l
met selling the Life of Lee,' when
she said that she had been forced to
talk so much to sell book, that she
almost wished Lee had never been
born! She had lost all her patriotism.
I sometimes feel like Artemus Ward
when he said it would have been money
in his pocket if no had never been
born"
Then the two girls laughed, just as
girls will Mt their own small jokes.
They were full OF sympathy for each
other; and they felt very merry. 1t
was great happiness to these two
wanderers in strange lands, this CONS
radeship. as
"Have you done much here, Steph ="
Peggotty bethought herself presently
to inquire in her brisk and business
like way.
s'That is just it--why i was blue
awhile ago as l Stood watching that
blessed buss unload. DO you know,
dear, saw you get out and i was en-
vying you with all my heart. l
thought you were SON" y, ung lady on
a pleasure trip"
They both laughed again; il seemed
hard to repress their mirth.
"Well, wasn't I?" Peg answered
with great show of surprise.
"I don't seem somehow, 10 &c, started
here. 1 confess am too great a cows
ard to undertake it alone. l have been
waiting for something to turn up.
When 1 think of working this city
alone, Peg-I m"st tell you--about
Lynchburg. Ihave been 80 miserable
about it, and when i think OF mama,
and what she would say, and the NOR
tificatlon OF it--Peg, i was arrested in
Lynchburg."
Peggotty White looked at her friend
in speechless CONSERVATION for u mo-
mept. Then seeing the unmis,akabie
misery written on her face, she turned
it Off with light laugh, while she in,
W iAA
~ hope, my dear Siephnnle, that you
did not carry your spoon of n your
pocket, or, in Il piece Of absent minded
ness, forget to settle your bill ?"
But Stephanie could not be persuaded
into smiling.
"It was this way" she began rap
idly. "Toward the end Of my stay in
Lynchburg-did / ;el you that ! had
to work it alone FL had just stepped
into bank and was waiting for come
QUO to come forward, when a police
officer, who had evidently been follows
ing me, came up in as polite Il manner
as he could command, and asked me il
T was not getting subscribers to a paper
called the South.
l thought that be wished to sub
scribe, and told him that l was
He then asked me If ] 'thad my pa
pers?"
In all inucceusc / handed him a
copy of the South which ! had with
me.
"You do not understand me, Miss"
he said in an embarrassed way. 81
mean have you got your license?'
| was both astonished aud Indignant
at his persistency.
al am no, required TO have license" ,"
| / answered with con nfidence, and was
turning away.
"Excuso me, Miss, but you will have
to go with me around TO The court
house and see about it. 1t is either a
license, or a fine"
{" will 60 to the court house." an
swered, and / drew myself up as /
spoke, "but not with you"
He touched his bat and withdrew,
but i knew ] was watched. / went
! in mediately to tho Mayors Office and
demanded to see him, burning with
the iEdignity offered me. The police
officer was already there, and politely
showed me into a room. Peg, 1t was
the police court room, and there sat
the Mayor, eyeing me with amaze
ment, and around the wall, q number
OF the police force. My case was called
and l was "examined,h and-fiucd.
The Mayor was very polite, bul / will
never get over the depreciation Of it,
Think of police court, Peggot,y! The